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I have incremental refresh configured on a large fact table that has been in production for a while, but I'll need to add a new field to the table now. I can redefine the table to include the field using ALM toolkit, but the data only gets populated in the new field for the current partition. Is there a way to force a complete refresh/rebuild of older partitions so that the new field's data can be populated retrospectively?
The only think I can think of is to remove the partitioning altogether, do a full refresh and then replace the partitioning. I really don't like the idea of doing this on a production dataset. There has to be a cleaner solution to rebuild old partitions.
I did try via SSMS - connecting to the dataset as if it were an AAS cube and selecting & rebuilding partitions, but this does not work. Anyone else encountered this puzzle?
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Hi. I was thinking about the same as you. Deleting and refreshing all over again. However, guy in a cube has recently published an interesting appproach that might help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AWt6ijJG94
Hope that helps,
Happy to help!
Hi. I was thinking about the same as you. Deleting and refreshing all over again. However, guy in a cube has recently published an interesting appproach that might help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AWt6ijJG94
Hope that helps,
Happy to help!
HI,
Did you find a way to add new field to all partitions wthout deleting the partition?
Thanks
Ah man, I was so close! I just had partition refresh process a little wrong from SSMS. Thanks for the link to that video. My trick bag has been updated 🙂
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